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New Titles List for the Week of November 25

BOOKS

FICTION
JP Gritton Wyoming
Emer Martin The cruelty men
Anna Todd After we collided
Elizabeth Berg The confession club
Matthew Dicks Twenty-one truths about love
C. Joseph Greaves Church of the graveyard saints
Ernesto Quiñonez Taína
Veronica Raimo The girl at the door

Historical Fiction
Rhys Bowen The victory garden
Anne Cleeland A death in Sheffield
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo Animalia

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Michael Nava Carved in bone
Connie Berry A dream of death
L. A. Chandlar The pearl dagger
Liz Freeland Murder in midtown
Dianne Freeman A lady's guide to gossip & murder
Robert Harris The second sleep
Mary Lawrence The alchemist of lost souls
Con Lehane Murder off the page
Catherine Lloyd Death comes to the school
Hank Phillippi Ryan Trust me
Peter Steiner The good cop
F. Paul Wilson The last Christmas
Reavis Z. Wortham Gold dust
Erica Wright The blue kingfisher

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Alan Moore Jerusalem

Short Stories
Beth Piatote The beadworkers
Hebe Uhart The scent of Buenos Aires: stories
Ambai A kitchen in the corner of the house
Daniel Chacón Kafka in a skirt: stories from the wall
Benjamin Percy Suicide woods

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Peter Kuper Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness 741.5 K967j comics
Lynda Barry Making comics 741.5 B281m comics
Riad Sattouf The Arab of the future. 4: a graphic memoir: a childhood in the Middle East (1987-1992) 741.5 S253 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Colin Butcher Molly: the true story of the amazing dog who rescues cats 636.7 B971
Kassia St. Clair The golden thread: how fabric changed history 677 S102
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft Meat planet: artificial flesh & the future of food 664.9 W963

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Ken Follett Notre-Dame: a short history of the meaning of cathedrals 726.6 F724

Biography & Genealogy
Deirdre Bair Parisian lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir & me 92 B161

Business & Economics
Abhijit V. Banerjee Good economics for hard times 337 B223
Jen Oleniczak Brown Think on your feet: tips & tricks to improve your impromptu communication skills on the job 658.45 B812
Nancy Duarte HBR guide to persuasive presentations 658.452 D812h
Stephen Few Information dashboard design: displaying data for at-a-glance monitoring 658.45 F436i
Robert Iger The ride of a lifetime: lessons learned from 15 years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company 384.8 I2
Michael R. Adamson Oil & urbanization on the Pacific Coast: Ralph Bramel Lloyd & the shaping of the urban West 338.7 L775a
Aaron Glantz Homewreckers: how a gang of Wall Street kingpins, hedge fund magnates, crooked banks & vulture capitalists suckered millions out of their homes & demolished the American dream 332.72 G546
Benita Matofska Generation share: the change-makers building the sharing economy 334 M427
Shelley Giordano What's the deal with reverse mortgages? 332.72 G437
Wade D. Pfau Safety-first retirement planning: an integrated approach for a worry-free retirement 332.024 P523s
Terry Savage The Savage truth on money 332.024 S921

Computer Science
Tom Chivers The AI does not hate you: the rationalists & the race to save the world 006.3 C449
Stephen Few The data loom: weaving understanding by thinking critically & scientifically with data 001.42 F436

Food & Drink
Irma S. Rombauer Joy of cooking 641.5 J88
Niki Segnit Lateral cooking 641.5 S379
Simon Bajada Baltic: old & new recipes: Latvia, Lithuania & Estonia 641.5947 B167

History
Pekka Hämäläinen Lakota America: a new history of indigenous power 970.3 H198
Thant Myint-U The hidden history of Burma: race, capitalism & the crisis of democracy in the 21st century 959.1 T36h

Languages & Linguistics
Nicola Gardini Long live Latin: the pleasures of a useless language 470.9 G169

Literature & Writing
Sarah M. Broom The yellow house 818.603 B791
Jaquira Díaz Ordinary girls: a memoir 818.603 D338
Natasha Stagg Sleeveless: fashion, image, media, New York 2011-2019 814.6 S138

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Erik Asphaug When the Earth had two moons: cannibal planets, icy giants, dirty comets, dreadful orbits & the origins of the night sky 523.4 A65
Richard Panek The trouble with gravity: solving the mystery beneath our feet 531.14 P191

Performing Arts & Music
Richard Beck Trains, Jesus & murder: the Gospel according to Johnny Cash 782.421 C338b
Flea Acid for the children: a memoir 780.92 F62
Rob Kapilow Listening for America: inside the great American songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim 782.421 K141
John O'Connell Bowie's bookshelf: the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life 780.92 B78o

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Ryan Holiday Stillness is the key 128.4 H732
James Trapp Chinese astrology: understanding your horoscope 133.5 T689

Politics & Government
Leah Greenberg We are indivisible: a blueprint for democracy after Trump 321.8 G829
Susan Ware Why they marched: untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote 324.6 W22
Stanley Fish The first: how to think about hate speech, campus speech, religious speech, fake news, post-truth & Donald Trump 323.443 F532f

Social Sciences & Current Events
Jennifer Browdy (editor) Women writing resistance: essays on Latin America & the Caribbean 305.42 W842
Mike German Disrupt, discredit & divide: how the new FBI damages our democracy 363.25 G317
Naomi Klein On fire: the (burning) case for a green new deal 363.7 K641
Andrew Marantz Antisocial: online extremists, techno-utopians & the hijacking of the American conversation 303.484 M325
Adam Minter Secondhand: travels in the new global garage sale 381.19 M667
Tom Mueller Crisis of conscience: whistleblowing in an age of fraud 364.163 M946
Slavoj Žižek Like a thief in broad daylight: power in the era of post-human capitalism 303.3 Z82L
Jessica McDiarmid Highway of Tears: a true story of racism, indifference & the pursuit of justice for missing & murdered Indigenous women & girls 362.88 M144

Sports & Games
David Sweet Three seconds in Munich: the controversial 1972 Olympic basketball final 796.48 S361

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Aaron Glantz Homewreckers: how a gang of Wall Street kingpins, hedge fund magnates, crooked banks & vulture capitalists suckered millions out of their homes & demolished the American dream CD 332.72 G546

Posted on Nov. 27, 2019 by Cherilyn Chang